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Muhammadu Buhari, the President of Nigeria, has expressed satisfaction with the growing role of agriculture as a strategy for jobs creation among young Nigerians. Speaking while receiving Boukekri Rmilli, the Foreign Minister of Tunisia, at the State House, in Abuja, on Tuesday, Buhari said his administration would increase its support for agriculture as a mechanism for jobs creation. “We are ...

 By Nduka Uzuakpundu Muhammadu Buhari, the President of Nigeria, has reiterated his administration’s commitment to a successful execution of the Economic Recovery and Growth Plan (ERGP). At the launch of the Focus Labs, on Tuesday, at State Banquet Hall, in Abuja, he described the labs as closed-door investment platforms, whose profile for economic growth and transformation would be sharpened by ...

Organised labour, at the weekend, pleaded with Muhammadu Buhari, the President of Nigeria, not to sign the African Continental Free Trade Agreement (CFTA), slated for signing on March 21,. 2018, in Kigali, Rwanda, warning that it would destroy the nation’s economy. The President of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), Ayuba Wabba, expressed surprise that at a time that nations, including ...

The Minister of Budget and National Planning, Udoma Udo Udoma, has said that the Economic Recovery and Growth Plan (ERGP) Focus Labs would be inaugurated by Muhammadu Buhari, the President of Nigeria, on Tuesday. The Minister stated this when he briefed State House correspondents on the outcome of the meeting of the Federal Executive Council (FEC), presided over by Muhammadu ...

Muhammadu Buhari,President of Nigeria, has challenged the Presidential Fertiliser Initiative (PFI) to ensure availability of quality and affordable fertilisers to farmers at the right time as the nation’s journey to self-sufficiency and food security is not negotiable. The President gave the challenge at a meeting with members of the PFI and Fertiliser Producers and Suppliers of Nigeria (FEPSAN) at the ...

President Muhammadu Buhari, represented by the Secretary of the Government of the Federation, Boss Mustapha, launched the maiden edition of the Nigeria International Petroleum Summit (NIPS), in Abuja, on Monday. NIPS, according to the Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Petroleum Resources, Folasade Esan, represented, “Nigeria’s contribution to the quest for a sustainable platform for global industry players to come ...

By Nduka Uzuakpundu As Nigeria’s economy eases, with guarded optimism, out of a deep recession, the development has tended to renew investors’ hope in the country. The crawl away from a two-year-long recession, up to 2017, was hit with a nation-wide petrol scarcity for nearly two months up to December, 2017. As some tidiness returns to the economy, hope, among ...

Piqued by the lingering fuel crisis in the country since the beginning of the year, Northern youths have asked the Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, Baru Maikanti, to take concrete steps to end the current fuel scarcity in the country or step aside. The youths, under the aegis of Arewa Youths Assembly, said that it was ...

Nigerians are not happy with the lingering fuel scarcity being experienced in some parts of the country. Many consumers have deplored the development, adding that it did not speak well of the President Muhammadu Buhari-led administration. While lamenting the situation, some said fuel and light that were the most essential in a developing country had become terribly scarce. Following the ...

By Nduka Uzuakpundu Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari had a genuine cause, recently, to laud China for her rising investment in the country. China, he said, was a friend of Nigeria – and Africa, in general. At a time of a deep recession, between 2015 and 2017 – the first two years of the Buhari administration – the economic indices of ...